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Ran­dom thoughts and hap­pen­ings that are not nec­es­sar­i­ly out­door-relat­ed. Per­son­al events, opin­ions and any­thing else that does­n’t real­ly ‘fit’ in anoth­er category.

‘Staying in here’: What to do when a ‘rainy day’ turns into months

So I love the out­doors, this much is obvi­ous. Whether you’re read­ing my blog for the first time, or have been hang­ing around for a while, I think it’s safe to assume with a blog called Get­ting Out There that my hap­pi­ness in life involves being out­side. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, in late Novem­ber 2020 I injured my spine, her­ni­at­ing my L5/S1 disc.

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Graduating with my first degree at 38

I nev­er went to uni­ver­si­ty after high school, elect­ing to instead enlist in the Roy­al Aus­tralian Navy. So in 2016, after a few dif­fer­ent career paths, I decid­ed to under­take study at Fed­er­a­tion Uni­ver­si­ty in Bal­larat as a mature-aged stu­dent. I had no idea how much this new jour­ney would chal­lenge me, and how much I would gain from it. It tru­ly changed my life.

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